Holmgard Press recently published a collector’s edition of The Fall of Blood Mountain, book number 26 in the Lone Wolf series. In The Fall of Blood Mountain, you must journey to the subterranean kingdom of the dwarves and attempt to save your ancient allies from the wrath of the Shom’zaa. This collector’s edition features Brian …
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We at GBN understand the enjoyment of diving into an adventure gamebook. Whether it’s a classic piece of Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf or one of the exciting recent additions to the genre, interactive fiction opens doorways into worlds of the imagination that can be as cinematic, engaging and memorable as any other form of entertainment. …
Placeholder Gameworks’ Death and Taxes is a narrative-based game where you take the role of the Grim Reaper… on an office job, deciding who will live or die. The choices you make, your relationship with your boss and the way you play will determine whether you save the world or condemn it to damnation. Meet …
The new Captain Underpants interactive special from DreamWorks Animation, Epic Choice-O-Rama, has now been released, where you control what adventures George and Harold go on. When Principal Krupp has had it with George and Harold’s comics, he threatens to destroy their treehouse once and for all. George and Harold will need to hatch a plan …
Created, written and illustrated by Panagiotis Vlamis and published by DFMGames, Tales from Ane Moni: The Keep of Bane is an interactive ‘comigame’, a derivative of the words comic and game, meaning that it is both. This mini visual adventure features branching paths and game mechanics, with adversaries of various difficulties set to test your …
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This December update is the final Round-up article we’ll be posting on GBN. Due to recent alterations to our category structure and further upcoming improvements to the site, we’ll now make a switch to separately listing all news items as either a normal post set in our standard formatting, or as a brief ‘NewsByte’ for …
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The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but at least with Rob Sears’ Choose Your Own Apocalypse With Kim Jong-un & Friends, you get to choose how it ends! There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. …
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Summerfall Studios’ CHORUS is a choice-based adventure musical, one part narrative-driven adventure and one part interactive musical. Written by former BioWare lead writer David Gaider, scored by award-winning composer Austin Wintory, voice directed by acclaimed actor and director Troy Baker, and starring the extremely talented Laura Bailey, CHORUS is an urban fantasy tale with a …
This month we bring you news of interactive adventures set in different times and places: 6th-century Scandinavia, fantasy lands featuring marshlands and winter storms, Zanzibar in the late 19th century, an Australian small town, and war-ravaged Syria. • • •Beowulf Beastslayer Jonathan Green’s 4th title in his ACE Gamebooks series, Beowulf Beastslayer, has now been …
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Fool! is Choice of Games’ latest release: a 420,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Ben Rovik – author of the self-published Mechanized Wizardry series, a playwright (as Ben Kingsland) and professional actor. Jest your way from obscurity to royal acclaim as the King’s pet, beloved by all! As a talented young court fool with dreams of …
Currently seeking funding via Kickstarter, Nighthawks – The Vampire RPG is a highly atmospheric text-based computer RPG for PC and Mac from Wadjet Eye Games (The Blackwell Legacy, Unavowed, Technobabylon) and writer/designer Richard Cobbett (Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies, The Long Journey Home). This urban fantasy game invites you to join the mean streets of a city grudgingly …
The Two-Fisted Fantasy series from Sam Iacob (aka Herman S. Skull, Hermit Skull) simply isn’t your typical gamebook fare. Containing off-the-wall plots often full of puerile yet witty absurdity, populated by puzzling characters carrying plenty of personal baggage, and bursting with endless situations that entertain with their outlandish inventiveness and attitude, this series presents adventures …
Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson have released their insightful and intensely satirical gamebook Can You Brexit? It’s up to you to undertake the difficult negotiations of separation, where you not only have to deliver a workable Brexit as you manage ongoing domestic affairs, but you have to hold onto power while doing so! Can you …
Marvel has announced a new five-issue limited miniseries featuring their famously unpredictable Merc with a Mouth: Deadpool. However, this isn’t Marvel’s standard comic, but a playable interactive adventure in which the reader controls Deadpool’s story, rolling dice, making decisions and getting into fights as you travel through time in a whirlwind adventure. “YOU ARE DEADPOOL …